Diaphone lampra Karsch, 1894

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FAMILY Noctuidae
SUBFAMILY Hadeninae
GENUS Diaphone
SPECIES lampra
AUTHORKarsch, 1894
ORIGINAL COMBINATIOND.[iaphone] lampra nov. spec.
TYPE LOCALITY[Tanzania], Ost-Afrika, N Usambara, near Mlalo, 1891-1892, leg. K. Holst.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES /
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) Syntypes 1♂, 1♀, MfN.
STATUS Species
PUBLICATION Karsch F. 1894. Zwei neue Ostafrikanische Arctiiden. - Entomologische Nachrichten 20(24):376-379.
PAGINATION 376-377 Bhl

Species pictures

Synonyms

NAME AUTHOR STATUS
pyrsonota Tams, 1930 Synonym of species

Species Distribution

COUNTRY PROVINCE/STATE PUBLICATION PAGE
Kenya   Tams W. H. T. 1930a. Descriptions of new African moths in the British Museum collection. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10) 5:484-493, pl. 18. 487 (as pyrsonota)
Malawi     P. Basquin
Tanzania   Karsch F. 1894. Zwei neue Ostafrikanische Arctiiden. - Entomologische Nachrichten 20(24):376-379. 377
Zambia   Pinhey E. C. G. 1962a. New or little known Lepidoptera from central Africa. - Occasional Papers of the Natural History Museum in Southern Rhodesia 3(26B):871-891, pls 1-2. 874

Host Plants

FAMILY SPECIES COUNTRY PUBLICATIONPAGE
Amaryllidaceae Amaryllis sp. East Africa Sevastopulo D. G. 1976. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2. Moths (Heterocera). - Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society 35(311):94-100; (313) 177-195. 185
Asparagaceae Albuca sp. East Africa Sevastopulo D. G. 1976. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2. Moths (Heterocera). - Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society 35(311):94-100; (313) 177-195. 185
Asparagaceae Anthericum sp. East Africa Sevastopulo D. G. 1976. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2. Moths (Heterocera). - Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society 35(311):94-100; (313) 177-195. 185
Amaryllidaceae Amaryllis sp. Kenya Townsend A. L. H. 1942. Further notes (No. 3) on the early stages of Heterocera bred in the Nakuru District. - Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 42(4-5):197-219. 207
Amaryllidaceae Crinum kirkii Kenya Townsend A. L. H. 1942. Further notes (No. 3) on the early stages of Heterocera bred in the Nakuru District. - Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 42(4-5):197-219. 207
Asparagaceae Anthericum sp. Kenya Townsend A. L. H. 1942. Further notes (No. 3) on the early stages of Heterocera bred in the Nakuru District. - Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 42(4-5):197-219. 207

*   Description of the larva in A. L. H. Townsend (1942: 207-208).